Robert_the_damned

that's the one I was talking about should have known you'd know where it was Maiden

http://www.fishguitar.com/aries2.html that's supprisingly metal! I wish I could find the bass bass I saw...it was just like what you're brother has drawn of course searching for bass bass doesn't yeald any results!

I'm definately sure I've seen a bass bass somewhere before. nothing new under the sun as they always say

You could always order it from europe (try germany or another 'euro' using country as the $->£ rate is bad at the moment). The only differance between a wilkinson convertable and a standard strat trem is that you can lock it in possition ('converting' it to a fixed bridge, though I guess you already knew that?). I have no idea who has the paitent, maybe Kahler as their 7300 bridge offers a locking option the 7300 IMHO is a better option than a floyd (see the thread in this section called kahler for more about the 7300).

how about chemicaly etching it? you can design it on the PC print it out on 'press and peal' (I think thats what its called...its paper used for etching circuit boards). Put it onto your truss rod cover and dip it in some ferric chloride (available wherever you get the press and peal) leave it for a while and bingo one chemically etched truss rod cover!

Try using the search function on the forum. This topic has been covered many many times. Also I'm sure if you put 'led wiring' or something similar into google or any other search engine you'd find the exact information you need. If you wire them in parrallel you will need something like a 33ohm resistor. A 9V battery wont drive 10 LED's in series though however.

Ed Roman SELLS GUITARS? I thought he just made slanderous comments about other people guitars. oh yes of course he re-builds guitars from basic models to pass them off as top of the line.

wow that's a lot for one guitar. there's a place here that sells original 60's and 70's gibsons and fenders for a heck of a lot less than that! I s'pose someone will buy it and make ESP a huge profit but that's just silly money for a guitar.

Yeah my old guitar teacher had a lovely washburn with a 2300 on it he'd be sat there with a 'shred' guitar playing blues and I'd have my les paul standard trying to play metal, crazy world eh? I've been trawling the kahler sites and apparently the 7xxx series are mass produced whereas the 2xxx series are all handmade. Hence the price differances. I don't think the quality will be noticably affected though.

ok I thought I'd give the good word on my favorite new pedal. I recently recived my EH Pocket metal muff. Its quite littraly pocket sized (well if you have fairly big pockets!), defenatly the smallest pedal on my board though (about half an inch smaller than a boss pedal in all measurements). This model has the least controls: only a volume knob distortion knob and a three possition mid scoop toggle switch (off/ slight scoop/full scoop). This thing has a LOT of gain, not the most I've ever heard but its still a lot, more than my Boss HM-2 by a long shot and defentaly more than a metal zone. The mid scoop switch is actually very well done and sounds 'right' (I have mine set on full scoop of course!). Its a bit of a one trick pony though you can get some reasonable mild distortions as well as the full on effect. Sticking an EQ pedal infront of it and boosting your mids into the pedal is a must if you have the scoop switch on full though. no recordings at the moment but I can make some if people want to hear it and the best thing about it is that it cost only £35 (from dolphin music) which is a really steal in my opinion.

I've played two guitars with kahlers 2300's (both 80's washburns). They're looovely trems...much nicer than a floyd (IMHO of course), plus with the 7300 apparently you can break a string and still 'stay in tune long enough to finnish the song' says their website. I'd be buying one if I could afford it and if they shipped here. any of you nice people in america willing to do a bit of posting I'll pay for it of course.

you can either re-wind the pickup (can be done yourself but its hard to do well if you've not had practice or get it done by someone else which is expensive) or buy a new pickup. A new pickup might be cheeper than having the pickup re-wound depending on what sort of pickup you want (a guitar fetish pickup is cheep a new PRS will be a lot more).

ah kirchoff where would we be without you. a star network should work just the same as a daisy chain network. Personally I like daisy chain as its a lot less wires to run and if I have a pedal that's a differant polarity I'd make a short converter lead (so if I want to re-arrange things I just disconnect the converter and move it with the pedal). Though all my 9V pedals currently run the same polarity (though I do have one pedal on 4.5V and will soon have a couple with individual 18V supplies, which is why I'm screwing a 4 way mains socket to the middle of my pedal board!).

some artists do have very nice taste I have to say. Which Kh model did you order? kxk guitars are damn nice looking, I would actually like one of the Karl Sanders warrior V's (though I can't believe he uses a sd Invader )

That's fairly expensive! better off buying the cheeper fix bridge model and the trem seperately and fitting it yourself! (of course you'd not get the same level of workmanship but oh well!) *personally* I'd never play someone elses signature gutiar (unless I was in an apropriate tribute band). It just doesn't seem right to me.

so it is! and there was me thinking it was a floyd! I wonder if we'll be seeing one on one of the B.c. Rich signature gutiars! I highly doubt it! hummm might have to think about putting one of those onto my Virgo copy I want to make. Though they do only ship to the US so that would make it a lot more difficult. I'd have to find one of you nice friendly american's that would be willing to post it over to me. and for some reason I believe you!

sounds good to me. maybe you've got a bit more gain but I've only been playing for about 5 years so I'm sure I'll catch up at some point when you get old a grey and can't take all that 'loud rawkus music' anymore! You'll be sat on your porch with your telecaster set up for slide playing along to Muddy Waters in no time! That's not bad of course the EMG pickups add a fair bit to that total price. I'm still mostly on overwound passives but I will be installing an 81 in a guitar when I can get access to it (its at home,I'm at uni, bit of a bugger really!) that's getting it before anything else goes active because its tuned stupidly low and has no tone of its own (plywood body and maple neck). you've even got me look at trems now (normally I'm completely against them) but the Ibanez ZR llooks like it could be a trem I'd like. Now all I've got to do is go find a guitar store with a model with one on to try (which is more difficult than you'd think in the UK). sorry for the thread hijack!!!!

oh and here's a really crap recording from before even having my pre-gain eq so it sucks mightly even without me screwing up at least once a bar! http://www.yourfilehost.com/media.php?cat=...le=DM200023.WMA recorded with a cr@p dictaphone so yeah...its bad

hehe..don't bother.maaybe you don't know who you are talking to...but i am the guy who has every piece of gear on the planet... ah good point! but just because you have every good piece of gear doesn't mean you've found every good setting on every piece of gear though I have a spider 2 2x10 combo. Its pretty good but what I really want to do is custom build a tube amp (something like a JCM800 pre-amp plus a dual recto preamp all run into a marshall design power amp) need to experiment in making slightly smaller less complicated tube amps first though. I play maily black metal sort of stuff (so its not *that* fast and its mainly one note lines so I can get away with having tones of dirty fuzz!) ok maybe I can't *quite* rival that but I think the sounds I can get would supprise you I've got a fair sound system so don't worry! alright but its nearly 1 am and I've got to get up in seven and a half hours and be able to understand maths

I can't stand the metal zone I'm affraid That's essentially what I'm doing too except I'm using my EQ to drive the amp model harder where it needs it (extreme highs, mids ~800hz and bass ~100hz). After I've got my new gear (christmas presents ect.) I'll have a MXR 10 band either side of a Line 6 Ubermetal pedal for full tweakablity shall have to send you some clips when I've ironed the kinks out of my recording setup

oooo full frontal telecasters just what you want of an evening when you're on you're own! was about to ask what active electronics those were. Care to comment on each unit? (ie pro's con's ect.) gotta be some of the best tele's I've ever seen I think they were started about a year before I joined

looks like I'll never need to re-charge these rechargables then! and after all that effort I went to installing the ground wire on that guitar! A lot of non-thrash bands still use JCM-800 (I happen to know Belphegor were using them up until recently when they switched to the rather overused Mesa dual recto (still with marshall cabs though so not so bad)). Seasons in the Abyss has a good tone too gotta love skeletons of society oi I sorta understand and I think I qualify as a younger generation though I do use Line 6 gear not the kidney bean though! (and only because the Line 6 'Insane' model is the highest gain sound I've ever heard...I'd use something else if I could find something with more gain and dirt)

I don't think I've ever heard of such a service. There might be someone on this forum that'll do it for you (though then you have to trust them to get it right ). You'll probably be better off ordering a new pre-slotted fretboard (from Craft supplies or David Dyke or wherever) and saving the bit of wood you've got for a later project when you feel up to fretting it yourself. (oh and incase you don't think you'll be doing any more projects I'm planning my 4 and 5 (and possibly 6 and 7) and was only orignally going to do one!)

from the picture of the pickups in the first post I can just about see that they're 4 conductor wiring. I'm guessing you've measured 3.76kohms and 3.8kohms per coil (making them 7.52kohms and 7.6kohms respectively) I'd personally say that that was a little low (though I do play metal and normally use pickups in the range of 15Kohms to 27kohms). They should be fine if you're playing Jazz/blues/light rock but for anything else you'll want a bit more power. Nice build by the way. I'll be intrested to see how this one turns out.

I'll do that then I *think* I get how you've wired it. I did work out that I'd get 6300 playing hours (ish) with both battery boxes, possibly slight overkill as that is 262 and a half days continous 24hour playing lords I'd be tired after that! ah yeah that is rather a lot of gear and I thought my buying of hardware for two guitars and the few stomp boxes I've bought was to much! hope you'll be arround for a while though if you ever want someone to put you off buying something I'm always a nit picker with gear so I'd be happy to point out lots of reasons not to buy things for you!